On ‘Daft Day’, we did lots of interesting activities, one of them was dressing in non-uniform but with a twist...we had to dress daft! All at GEMS became VERY daft on ‘Daft Day because of the things that we were wearing (the daft side to everyone’s personality was allowed to break free and some people’s daft side was ridiculously daft! Even though the majority of the children made a fantastic effort, some children had not quite transformed into ‘Dafties’ so extra clothing accessories were provided and soon ‘Daftness’ spread across the entire school. Everybody looked very funny, especially the teachers. Mr Stout dressed to impress but made an incredibly unattractive lady.

On Monday 12th of June, 6NS travelled to Nissan in Sunderland (the other classes went on later dates) by bus supplied by Nissan themselves- no complicated metro journeys. We started off by getting into 5 teams of 6; red, orange, yellow, green and blue (first 5 colours of the rainbow!) Our 1st task was to create our own car with our partners using the LEGO set they supplied us with, no instructions. Then, we had to show everyone our cars and tell them the name. TOO MUCH PRESSURE!

Girls Football Club for Years 5 and 6 will be after school on Wednesday (3:30 to 4:15pm), starting on September 27th. The club is open to all girls in those years, and will be run by Mrs Hadfield.

First Act Drama clubs for KS2 and  KS3 begin again the week beginning 18th September. 

As dawn rose over Newcastle railway station at 8 o’clock in the morning, a group of Year 8 students gathered haphazardly, all waiting for the train to London. Even though there was a three-hour train ride to endure, we were all more hyper than a toddler on Haribo. Some bags were more sizeable than others and some had rather strange items inside! Having eventually arrived in London, we all traipsed into the London Underground station then emerged blinking in the sunlight and into the hot, humid air of the capital. However, we had barely arrived at the hotel when it was time to get moving again. Another short journey on the tube and we arrived at the Natural History Museum.

Students from GEMS travelled to London to represent Newcastle United Foundation in a national Tennis Tournment and to see the tennis at Wimbledon.